UNIVERSAL IMAGE PROCESSING

摘要

The present invention provides a universal and centralized image (e.g., medical, bio- molecular, etc.) processing system platform. The invention permits sharing both computation and visualization across a single universal platform, thus allowing for sharing ofcomputing resources and visualization of images on a variety ofimaging (client) devices without high-performance graphical display cards. In a typical embodiment a (e.g., medical) image 2D linear registration algorithm is implemented on a Cell Broadband Engine processor, which has nine processor cores on a chip and has a 4-waySIMD unit for each core.